Assembly allows you to use pointers and recursive methods, which were specific problems with Fortran. You can do anything in assembly, it just takes a lot of li

Assembly allows you to use pointers and recursive methods, which were specific problems with Fortran. You can do anything in assembly, it just takes a lot of lines. Programming languages, especially early ones, can place major limitations on how computations are expressed, even if they are nominally as turing-complete as any other language.